ST912 - Statistical Frontiers

Module content and teaching

Principal aims

This course will consist of 9 3 hour workshops. Each one will choose a particular Statistical Inference, give some background and give an overview of the state of the art in the area. Each workshop will have a unique lecturer who will be an expert in the research area.

Principal learning outcomes

By the end of the module the student should be able to a) apply Bayesian Statistics to simple data sets, b) understand how to apply statistical tools in various applied problems, c) compare the potency of different statistical approaches.